Dantewada

NEW DELHI: The Central Reserve Police Force has claimed to have killed around 20 Maoists and injured 15 in a fierce encounter in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district. Bodies of nine slain Maoists were found, along with arms and ammunition. Even though CRPF, which was accompanied by personnel of the Chhattisgarh police , did not suffer any casualty in the Dantewada encounter, Maoists struck back hours later in a separate incident in Bijapur, killing 2 CRPF jawans in a landmine blast.

NEW DELHI: To firm up plans to give a heavy push to the fight against Naxals in their citadel in Bastar, Home Minister Rajnath Singh will chair a meeting of Chief Ministers of four Maoist-hit states -- Chhattisgarh , Maharashtra , Telangana and Odisha -- tomorrow. With a special focus on carrying out anti-Naxal operations in the dense jungle of Bastar, the meeting will give stress on close coordination among state police forces and central paramilitary...

PURULIA: The CPI-Maoist today warned of more Dantewada-type attacks on security forces if the Centre carried on with the anti-Maoist offensive even as it expressed sympathy for the families of the 76 jawans killed and offered compensation. In a letter faxed to media houses here, the banned organisation said it would carry out more attacks similar to Dantewada and asked the security forces not to take part in operations directed against it. "Else the consequences will be bad...

RAIPUR: Maoists on Tuesday night carried out near-simultaneous attacks on four CRPF camps in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, triggering gunbattles but there was no immediate report of casualties. About 300 to 400 Naxalites carried out the attacks on the camps of the paramilitary personnel at Chintangufa, where 75 CRPF men and a policeman were killed in the worst Maoist strike two weeks ago, Kanker Lanka, Potampalli and Bheji in quick succession beginning at around 1930 hours,...

RAIPUR: The first phase of panchayat polls will be held in Chhattisgarh tomorrow amid tight security. "The preparations have been made for the first phase of polling for posts of 145 zila panchayat members, 1,134 janpad panchayat members, 4,163 sarpanch and 36,745 panch," said secretary, state election commission, I R Dehari. "The polling parties are on the way to destination amid tight security," he said. The elections would decide the fate of 1,22,384 candidates.

RAIPUR: Marking the Republic day, the CRPF today inaugurated two first-of-their kind 'battlefield' hospitals in the Naxal hotbeds of Bastar in Chhattisgarh which will provide immediate first aid to injured security forces personnel undertaking anti-Maoist operations as well as locals in the area. CRPF Inspector General (Operations) H S Sidhu flew down on a chopper from Raipur for the formal launching of the two hospitals in Bijapur and the other at Chintalnar in...

For a town designated 'ground zero' in the war against the Maoists, Dantewada wears a placid, nondescript air. There's no visible presence of security even near the SP's office. Although it's a district headquarters, there's no petrol pump. The nearest one is over 25km away. No autorickshaws ply in this town, also known to pilgrims for its Danteshwari temple. We had a long trudge to SP Amaresh Misra's office on March 29. In his office was a board on which was scribbled some data on ...

NEW DELHI: Maoists on Monday triggered a landmine blast in Dantewada killing 15 jawans and 30 civilians who were in a bus. The bus was on its way to Dantewada from Sukma when the blast occurred. Maoists had killed 76 CRPF personnel on April 6 in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh.

RAIPUR: A five kilo gram tiffin bomb hidden beneath the soil on a road was recovered today in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Dantewada district, police said. Dantewada district police officials told PTI that the tiffin bomb was recovered from Faraspal village after a tip off, when a team of security personnel was patrolling the area. The bomb was unearthed and defused, they said. In another incident at Bijapur district, a joint team of CRPF and district police...

NEW DELHI: Even as civil rights alarmists play the victim card on behalf of Maoists by describing the Dantewada massacre as a "fallout of the dirty war launched by the government", the Opposition has begun piling up pressure on the government for a tough response to the problem. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad , who cautioned the government against 'buying' into the 'propaganda' of the 'enablers' of Naxalites, said Maoists, through their actions, have...

NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist) has warned of more Dantewada like attacks on security forces if the Centre went ahead with the anti-Naxal operations. This is the second such warning by the Maoists after the Dantewada massacre, which left 76 CRPF personnel dead. The banned organisation issued the warning through a letter to media houses. It also asked security forces not to take part in operations directed against them saying "else the consequences will be bad for them. "Maoists...

NEW DELHI: A first-of-its kind 'battle field hospital' is being set up deep inside the Naxal hotbed of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh which will provide immediate first aid to injured CRPF and other security forces officials undertaking anti-Maoist operations. The mini combat-support hospital, aided with life sustaining and resuscitation gadgets, will be the first operational medical facility for security troops operating in various Maoist affected states. The...

AIZAWL: Antrik Suraksha Seva Medal would be awarded to 565 Mizo policemen of different ranks, Mizoram Police department spokesman Rex Zarzoliana said today. The policemen belonged to the second battalion of India Reserve Police deployed in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district in 2006-07, Zarzoliana said. "They were engaged in counter insurgency operations in one of the most dangerous areas where Maoist rebels were most active," he said. Known as 'Mizo Battalion'...

RAIPUR: A five kilo gram tiffin bomb hidden beneath the soil on a road was recovered today in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Dantewada district, police said. Dantewada district police officials told PTI that the tiffin bomb was recovered from Faraspal village after a tip off, when a team of security personnel was patrolling the area. The bomb was unearthed and defused, they said. In another incident at Bijapur district, a joint team of CRPF and district police...

RAIPUR:CRPF, which lost 75 men in a deadly naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada in 2010, unfurled the tri-colour at the same encounter spot as a mark of domination of the area on the occasion of the Independence Day . A contingent of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troops, commandos of the specialised CoBRA battalion led by Inspector General (Operations) H S Sidhu, camped in Tadmetla-Chintagufa area of the Naxal violence affected Sukma district of the...

RAIPUR: Three naxalites, including a senior level commander who was allegedly involved in last year's deadly Jiram valley attack have been arrested in insurgency-hit Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, police said today. The cadres were apprehended by a special team of Bijapur district police when they arrived at a weekly market of Bacheli in Dantewada last night, Bijapur Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sukhnandan Rathore told PTI. Following a tip-off...

NEW DELHI: Though suddenly overwhelmed by a heavily armed force of Maoists, the 80 CRPF men who were caught in a brutal ambush on Tuesday did not go down meekly. The encounter raged for a couple of hours and the men fell one by one till a clutch of injured survivors ran out of ammunition. The Maoists then moved in from the heights they occupied on the road near the village of Chintalnar in Dantewada and shot the injured and looted weapons. The seven CRPF men who were...

RAIPUR:CRPF, which lost 75 men in a deadly naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada in 2010, unfurled the tri-colour at the same encounter spot as a mark of domination of the area on the occasion of the Independence Day . A contingent of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troops, commandos of the specialised CoBRA battalion led by Inspector General (Operations) H S Sidhu, camped in Tadmetla-Chintagufa area of the Naxal violence affected Sukma district of the...

RAIPUR: A low 52 per cent turn-out was recorded in the Naxal-hit Bastar Lok Sabha constituency of Chhattisgarh today, where a police personnel was injured in an attack by the rebels, and explosives were recovered from a few places. Naxals, who had called for boycott of the election, ambushed a police team which was escorting polling officials on their return after conclusion of polling in Gadiras police station limits of Sukma district. A police constable was injured...

RAIPUR: In a brazen daytime attack, Naxals today ambushed a security team killing 15 personnel including 11 of the CRPF and also a civilian in a chilling reminder of the 2010 massacre of 76 securitymen in the same area in the worst-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. The attack at 1015 am at 'Jeerum Nullah', 400 km from here, came when a contingent of 44 joint security forces personnel was trapped and struck by heavy fire and landmine blasts while it was out for an...